Word: meant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Under the Big Three agreement at Potsdam, the Nationalist Chinese came in to occupy Hanoi and the North, the British (which meant the French, who arrived in British ships) came to liberate Saigon and the South. Ho defied them. "We hold these truths to be self-evident," Ho proclaimed, declaring his Viet Nam independent. The great deception began...
...night admitted he had tried to become a member of the Conservative League, but insisted that his action had nothing to do with his H.L.U. affiliation. "I just wanted a little fun," Kaplan said. "I was going to get some other freshmen and take over the Club. It was meant to be like the election of Cesare Balzotti to the Freshman Smoker Committee," he said. Balzotti was a fictitious candidate running for the '57 Smoker Committee...
...bedside blood test that any family doctor can perform in a couple of minutes has been devised by George Washington University researchers for victims of certain kinds of heart and artery diseases. Hitherto, treatment with anticlotting drugs like Dicumarol and Tromexan meant that patients had to go to a hospital every day; the simplified test means that the drugs can be used more conveniently for more cases...
...good ones. Last week, as a possible precaution against such nostalgic ingratitude, the Batista-controlled supreme electoral court forbade newspapers and radio stations to use election results from any source but the court's own official bulletins. That might guard against phony or inaccurate reports, but it also meant that the government would have a long, thoughtful look at the results before anyone else got a chance...
...where the line should be drawn. Last summer, when NLRB first announced that it would narrow its jurisdiction to exclude small retailers, utility companies, etc., and concentrate on companies having an important impact on interstate commerce, there was no dissent. But when NLRB last week showed what it meant by turning down six of eight union requests for federal supervision of bargaining elections,* the decision divided the five-man board on straight party lines. Board Member Abe Murdock, former Democratic Senator, charged that the board was abdicating its responsibilities, and that the decision of the Republican majority amounted...